Guitarmaker Kenneth Brögger / Copy Of 1890 Torres SE 144 / Guitar
Antonius Torres Jurado (1817-92), the father of the modern classical guitar – the Stradivarius of the guitar.
In around 1850, the Spanish guitar maker, Antonius Torres Jurado, developed the classical guitar into the model we essentially use today. He enlarged the resonance box and standardised the string length, increasing it from approx. 610 mm to approx. 650 mm. He also perfected the system of fan-bracing along the underside of the soundboard. This system was already well on its way to replacing the more primitive system consisting of a couple of tranverse bars.
During his life, Torres had two active periods of guitar-making. It was during these two periods that he made the majority of his instruments; from 1852 – 69 mainly in Seville and from 1875 – 92 in Almeria, both in Spain. During the second active period, Torres numbered his guitars on the maker’s label and added “Segunda Epoca” (SE) (second epoch). Instruments from this period are categorised by the letters “SE” followed by a number.
It is estimated that Torres built approximately 320 guitars in all and some 100 of these have been preserved. One of these guitars, no. SE 144 from 1890, belongs to Kenneth Brögger’s private collection of fine guitars. He has examined the instrument carefully and builds copies which, in every way (form, materials, inlay, all dimensions, varnish etc.), are as close to the original as possible, with wooden pegs (as on the original) and metal machineheads.
Top:
Spruce
Back and sides:
Spanish cypress
Neck:
Spanish cedar
Fingerboard:
Brazilian rosewood
Bridge:
Brazilian rosewood
Finish:
French polish
Guitarmaker Kenneth Brögger, Denmark 
Biography:
Kenneth Brögger was born in
Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, in 1948. He apprenticed with Danish
guitar maker Yngve Barslev from 1972 to 1975. To supplement his
training during this period, he made several research trips to Spain,
the mother country of the guitar, and learned the secrets of the trade
directly from the living tradition of guitar making. He built his first
guitar in 1974.
In 1975 he set up his own
workshop at Skovgardsvej 8 in Birkeroed and, in the same year,
exhibited two classical guitars at Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen.
In 1976 and 1977, Brögger worked as a volunteer at The Museum of Music
History and Carl Claudius
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